Nestorians, followers of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople in A.D. 428, who held that Christ had distinct human and divine persons. Nestorius was condemned by the Councils of Ephesus in 431 and Chalcedon in 451. A remnant of Nestorian Christians survives in the mountains of E. Anatolia and Kurdistan (driven into Iraq during the Great War).
From: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1939), p. 370.
